The largest company in the world, with almost half a trillion dollars in annual revenue, employs a workforce that often can't make it paycheck to paycheck. So the company is providing an app that will allow employees to access their pay before paycheck time arrives.

Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos, is worth over $100 billion: probably more money than you and I could manage to spend if we spent the rest of our lives spending it. Yet he still finds ways to undercut workers.

By Tim Paulson, Executive Director San Francisco Labor Council and Cherri Senders, Founder and President Labor 411

As 2017 draws to a close, it’s important to take some time to celebrate the season and enjoy the true magic of the Bay Area. We have handpicked some union-staffed holiday events that will keep your family and friends smiling and in the joyous spirit of the season. Best of all, your patronage of these events is helping to support good jobs. We hope you will enjoy these events which provide bring people together from all over the Bay Area to celebrate the holidays and the splendor of our region.

As we enter the holiday season and look back over the nearly concluded 2017, labor can take a lot of pride in what we have accomplished. Our ongoing fight for better wages, hours and benefits continues, and our committed LA union workers have joined their brothers and sisters in solidarity across a number of issues. We stood in opposition to President Trump’s executive orders involving immigration and the anticipated repeal of DACA. We participated in the Women’s and May Day Marches and helped defeat the disastrous anti-affordable housing bill, Measure S.